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Neurobiology of learning and memory: The honeybee as a model system

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Conditioning experiments with bees demonstrate surprising similarities between the well studied laboratory mammals and honeybees. These similarities appear both on the behavioral level and the neural organization of memory. The paper speculates on the basis of these similarities, and the idea of common neural elements is favored.

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  1. Institut für Tierphysiologie und Angewandte Zoologie der Freien Universität, D-1000, Berlin

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I am grateful to Drs. M.E. Bitterman and J. Rudy for their comments on an early draft of this paper. Supported by DFG grant Me 365.

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Menzel, R. Neurobiology of learning and memory: The honeybee as a model system. Naturwissenschaften 70, 504–511 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00394056

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